Closing SCMS 2015 was the well-received panel “Politics and Poetics of Platforms, Interfaces, and Transmedia Storytelling,” chaired by Concordia professor Marc Steinberg. The first to present was A.C. Deger (SUNY, University at Stony Brook) with her paper “Jumping Puzzles: Bringing…
Although presenter Ora Gelley of North Carolina State University was unfortunately absent due to illness, both Concordia’s Tom Waugh and University of Missouri’s Brad Prager delivered engaging presentations in the panel “Alternative Views of Sexuality and Pornography.” Prager’s “German Film…
Kicking off day three of SCMS to a great start was the panel “On Paramediality: Transformations and Transgressions of the Paratext.” Following University of Winnipeg’s Andrew Burke, Carleton’s David Richler, and York’s Thomas Dorey, Concordia PhD candidate Matthew Ogonoski closed…
In the panel “The Eastern European Cinematic Library,” Concordia PhD candidate Katarina Mihailovic presented on her dissertation “Rhythm with Light: Belgrade Postwar Film Club Experimentalism and the Legacy of the Avant-garde.” Mihailovic’s presentation sought to elevate the Belgrade Film Club,…
Opening up SCMS 2015 was a panel on Queer Media featuring Concordia’s Brandon Arroyo, alongside NYU’s Bruno Guarana, Indiana U’s Mark Hain, and Curran Nault of University of Texas. Complementing great presentations from an array of media contexts, Arroyo’s insightful…